High Times Cannabis Cup Winners 2010

Cannabis Cup

1. Tangerine Dream - Barney's Farm
2. Super Lemon Haze - Green House
3. LA Cheese - The Green Place

Indica Cup

1. Kosher Kush - Reserva Privada
2. Cold Creek Kush - TH Seeds
3. White OG - Karma Genetics

Sativa Cup

1. Acapulco Gold - Amnesia Seeds
2. Chocolope - DNA Genetics
3. Sour Power - Hortilab

Neder Hash

1. Tangerine Nectar Ice-O-Lator - Green House
2. Tangerine Nectar Iceolator - Barney's Farm
3. Grey Area Crystal - Grey Area

Import Hash

1. Caramella Cream - Barney's Farm
2. Rif Cream - Green House
3. Twizla - The Green Place

Product Cup

1. Barney's Bud Scope - Barney's Farm
2. Strainhunters India DVD - Green House
3. NO2 Vaporizer- Vapir

Glass Cup

1. Ghost - RooR
2. The Klingon - Cali Connection
3. Dragon Bong - Dragon Bong & Earth Spirit

Freedom Fighter of the Year

1. Dale Gieringer

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Willie Nelson arrested for cannabis possession

Country star Willie Nelson, a long-time activist for the legalisation of marijuana, has been arrested for cannabis possession. The singer could spend up to six months in prison, with a Texas sheriff promising "to make him cook and clean".

"We treat him like anybody else," sheriff Arvin West told the El Paso Times. Nelson, 77, was en route from California to Austin, Texas, where he owns a ranch. Cruising the highways on a bus called the Honeysuckle Rose III, Nelson came to a border control stop at 9am on Friday morning. Even at that early hour a suspicious smell allegedly wafted from inside the vehicle. Agents searched the bus, discovering six ounces (170g) of marijuana. Nelson reportedly admitted the drugs were his and was taken to Hudspeth county jail.

"He said he feels great," harmonica player Mickey Raphael told Rolling Stone. But although Nelson posted $2,500 (£1,600) bail, sheriffs say he may return for a longer stay behind bars. "He could get 180 days in county jail," West said. "If he does, I'm going to make him cook and clean."

In 2006, Nelson narrowly avoided jail after being arrested for cannabis possession in Louisiana. Officers seized more than 20 ounces (567g) of marijuana and 3 ounces (85g) of magic mushrooms; he was later sentenced to six months' probation. "Both bus drivers were over 50 years old," Nelson explained at the time. "The other guys were 60 years old. My sister is 75, I'm 73, so it's like they busted an old folks' home." In January, six members of Nelson's band were charged with possession of moonshine and marijuana in North Carolina.

Nelson, famous for singing songs such as Always On My Mind and To All the Girls I've Loved Before, is a supporter of marijuana legalisation. He sits on the advisory board for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws and has organised fundraisers for the group. "It's a matter of time," he said in 2008, "a matter of education, a matter of people finding out what cannabis, marijuana is for, why it grows out of the ground and why it's prescribed as one of the greatest stress medicines on the planet."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/nov/29/willie-nelson-arrested-cannabis-p...

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MS sufferer from Great Kingshill calls for change to policy on cannabis drug

A 66-YEAR-OLD who suffers from multiple sclerosis has called for a cannabis-based drug to be prescribed by the NHS in Buckinghamshire.

Sativex, an oral spray designed to reduce pain, has taken 11 years to develop and was first licensed by NHS in June this year.

The move was widely welcomed by MS sufferers and campaigners, but it was decided that NHS Buckinghamshire, the county's primary care trust, would not routinely prescribe the drug.

It was labelled a “low priority” and not cost effective in July, leaving Great Kingshill resident Peter Bridger disappointed.

The dad-of-four had been on a trial for Sativex for four years, but came off the drug 18 months ago when the trial ended.

He said: “It really really worked. As soon as I came off it my waterworks went haywire and I had to be fitted with a pipe through my tummy.

“It helped with the spasms, the bladder problems, the pain and the dizziness – that's four of the main five symptoms.”

NHS Buckinghamshire does fund Sativex, but only in exceptional circumstances.

It said it welcomes an application by Mr Bridger for his case to be considered by a funding review panel.

Mr Bridger said he will prepare an application, but believes the drug should be routinely proscribed. It costs £11-a-day to buy privately.

The MS Society shares this view and Dr Jayne Spink, a director of the charity, said: “We’ve been overwhelmed by enquiries from people across England who are struggling to access the treatment; it’s clear it’s subject to a postcode lottery.”

“The reality is that people with MS living in this area face a complicated and time consuming process to get Sativex, where as people in other parts of England are using and benefiting from the drug now.”

NHS Warwickshire is one primary care trust which does prescribe it.

Mr Bridger, a former engineer, believes there is a stigma surrounding cannabis, which may have affected the thinking of the NHS in Bucks.

He said: “It's the fact it's made from cannabis and all the feeling that provokes, there's a fear of it and that gets in the way of the science."

Jenny Murray, a spokesman for NHS Buckinghamshire, said: “We are committed to carefully considering each case and processing funding requests as quickly as possible, paying particular attention to the evidence of safety and effectiveness of the proposed treatment and the individual circumstances of the patient.”

She said if sufficient information is provided for the panel, decisions about funding cases take no longer than six weeks.

http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/localnews/wycombedistrict/8683079.MS_suf...

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OG Kush cannabis seeds back in stock!

We have just received back in stock the following strains from Reserva Privada and DNA Genetics:

• Reserva Privada - OG Kush
• Reserva Privada - Purple Wreck
• DNA Genetics - Rocklock

The OG Kush is very limited and strictly first come, first served. Order soon to avoid disappointment!

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'Like' or 'Tweet' our cannabis seeds

Want to shout about one of our cannabis seeds? Now you can with the Facebook 'Like' button or Twitter 'Tweet' button on the product pages. (It's just under the 'Add to Basket' button.)

So when you've found a strain you like, let everyone else know about it!

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NEW! Product Reviews

We've just launched a brand new feature for the site; Product Reviews.

It's an ideal place to share your thoughts on your favourite cannabis seeds or recommend strains to others.

Since the feature is so new, we have barely any reviews at the minute, so if you've recently bought some weed seeds off of us, why not let us know what you think to them?!

The reviews appear at the bottom of every product page, along with a form where you can write a new one.

NOTE: please make sure reviews do not contain any references to growing and/or germination as we won't be able to publish them.

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Royal Dutch Genetics & Grass-o-Matic Cannabis Seeds

To accompany our other recent editions, G13 Labs and Underground Originals, we are now proud to announce another two new seed banks.

Firstly, we have Grass-o-Matic Seeds, who pride themselves for being "the first to feminise autoflowering seeds and to breed big automatic plants". They currently only have 3 strains, of which is unavailable at this time:

• Auto AK
• Auto Mass (UNAVAILABLE)
• Maxi GoM

All their strains come in feminised seeds as either single seeds or packs of 5.

The second new addition is Royal Dutch Genetics. They have ten varieties, many of which are Cheese Strains.

• El Queso
• LA Cheese
• Love Cheese
• Royal Dutch Amnesia
• Royal Dutch Cheese
• Six Shooter
• Special K
• Strawberry Kush
• Super Silver Cheese
• Trainwreck

They're Trainwreck is a great substitute for the currently unavailable Green House Trainwreck!

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Prop 19 to legalise marijuana defeated in California

The movement to legalise marijuana suffered a blow as a ballot proposition that would have allowed the growth, use and taxation of the drug in California was rejected by voters.

The loss of Proposition 19, though not unexpected, was still a disappointment to many of those who had fought and campaigned hard for a measure that had won a lot of support for a subject once considered politically taboo.

The movement was based in the Bay Area city of Oakland and spearheaded by Richard Lee, founder of Oaksterdam University, a cannabis business school that is flourishing around the already legal medical marijuana trade.

At a party that had been intended as a victory celebration but turned into a wake, Lee promised that the movement to legalise the drug would fight on. Clutching a bag of marijuana buds Lee, who uses a wheelchair, said Prop 19 was just part of a long-term struggle that would be back. "We need to do a better job of building a state-wide organisation to educate voters that prohibition is hurting them," he said.

In California, at least, that might not be too hard. The medical marijuana industry has already made the drug commonplace over large stretches of the state, where it is widely available with a doctor's prescription and dispensed in cafes. Though nominally for medical use only, there are few controls on who gets prescriptions and what for. It is even dispensed in the form of marijuana-infused ice-cream.

In downtown Oakland, several city blocks have undergone urban renewal because of Oaksterdam and the numerous marijuana-themed gift shops and cafes that surround it. The businesses also bring hundreds of thousands of dollars each year to the city's cash-strapped coffers in the form of local taxes.

But full legalisation has for now been defeated. Not least among the reasons was the fact that the federal government – in the shape of attorney general Eric Holder – had vowed to crack down on any legalisation process, using federal authority.

Lee said that position had made the campaign in support of Prop 19 very difficult. "It is tough when you have to go against your own federal government and the attorney general," he said. "That is a tough thing to battle."

He added that the high level of support for Prop 19 should at least help the cause of stopping being jailed for using, growing or selling the drug. "45% of people voting for it makes it hard to lock people up for it," he said.

The mood among activists was not all doom and gloom. They have said all along that the process was about starting a debate. "We've already won in terms of education. We are making the case that prohibition of marijuana is wrong and people will eventually come around to it," said pro-Prop 19 volunteer Rosalinda Montez Palacios.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/03/prop-19-defeated-in-california

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